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PROFESSOR: So, welcome to
Philosophy and the Science of
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It's nice see so many
of you here today.
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I hope to see more of you
here again on Thursday.
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And my goal today is to try to
give you a sense of what kind
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of course this is going to be
so that you can make an
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informed decision about whether
this is a course that
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you actually want to enroll
in for credit.
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With that aim in mind, there are
three things I want to do
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in today's lecture.
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In the first part of the
lecture, I'm just going to
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give you a very broad overview
of what kind of course this
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is, and to say a few words about
what my goals are for
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In the bulk of the lecture, what
I'm going to do is to run
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through three examples of the
kinds of topics that we're
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going to be addressing this
semester, so that you have a
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sense of what kind of
material we're going
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to be talking about.
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And in the final section of
the course, I'll say a few
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things about what it is that
makes this course distinctive,
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and a few things about the
course's requirements.
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So the course has this
perplexing cross-listed title.
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It's called Philosophy and the
Science of Human Nature, and
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it's listed both in Philosophy
and in Cognitive Science, and
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it's a course for which you
can get credit in the
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Psychology major.
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So what kind of course
is this?
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Well, in some ways, this is a
course like Directed Studies
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Philosophy or Philosophy
125-126.
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That is, we're going to be
reading works by Plato, by
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Aristotle, by Epictetus, by
Boethius, by Hobbes, by Hume,
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all major philosophers
from the Western
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philosophical tradition.
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We're going to be reading them
roughly historically, with an
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attempt to get at some of the
kinds of questions that one
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would get at in a traditional
philosophy course.
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In addition, you'll get some of
the material that you would
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get in an ethics course.
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So one of the topics that we'll
cover in Philosophy and
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the Science of Human Nature
are the three main ethical
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theories in the Western
philosophical tradition.
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We'll talk about utilitarianism,
we'll talk
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about deontology, and we'll talk
about virtue ethics, and
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we'll talk about how those
relate to one another.
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You'll also get some of the
materials that you would get
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if you took an introduction to
political philosophy course.
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We'll very briefly look at the
work of Thomas Hobbes on the
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legitimacy of the state, and
then we'll read and think
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